Last night after some Joe’s Stone Crab with my sister Robyn I headed over to see some friends at a family office and wealth management event in South Beach.

It was after eight at a great roof top bar and I was saying hello to a few people I knew when a hand hit me on the shoulder and a man in an english accent said to me:

‘Howard …do you remember me?’

I did.

I was finally meeting Gareth Evans who had cold called me back in 1994 when I was at my first start-up (pre internet) called Pro-Innovative Concepts.

Gareth was a master cold caller for ‘Sands Brothers’ and he tells me he got my name from some 144 shareholder list.

In 1994, I was making my first little bit of money and luckily for both Gareth and I (we both knew nothing), it was a bull market and all the ideas Gareth was pitching did not go to zero.

Of course one did and it was the IPO of Orange Julius (Donald Trumpf). The ticker was $DJT and he would parlay that genius into the presidency.

Gareth has a 21 year old daughter in college and we agreed that my son Max would cold call her asking for a date.

Here we are sharing one of many laughs:

Life is short and the world is small (and we are both vaccinated).

Have a great Friday.